What's in a Name?

[Lilliandra]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

I'm sorry, this one is a bit longer that usual.

 

Rokasha stood in front of the small but utterly loyal band of renegades. They were hiding in a small set of buildings in the outskirts of Darfur, Africa. Her people had been forced from their homes and families. Rokasha alone commanded the loyalty of the troops with enough passion to convince them that one final all out hopeless battle would be won even if it were loss for their memory would always be remembered in legend. They were crushed, destroyed, and forgotten in hours. Steam slowly rose from the warm dead bodies into the cool morning air.

 

Two years later a Norseman named Bóthildr renewed the Norse religion from a happy myth of stories to a very serious and deadly religion. Hundreds of would be warriors answered his call. Christianity had overpowered and dominated the Norsemen of old. Now he saw the major countries as the deadly frost giants and lead his men into Ragnorok, The final Norse battle of Gods and men. Swords have never worked very well against Tomcat fighter jets and this was no exception. The wind blew the dust of explosive powders of what was left of the warriors out to sea.

 

Six months later a wealthy drug runner decided to try and use old diesel submarines to evade authorities. It worked well and in only weeks he convinced Gunrunners, slavers, even his drug competition to join his new navy. Stealth became irrelevant as the crime lords military power grew. The problem with pulling together many attack capable ships just makes them a big easy target and the stronger nations had stronger navel and Air forces than the crime lord. The high tech battle was quick and decisive. The crime lord’s navy now decorated the sea floor. The only survivor was one man who had been fatally shot with bomb fragments and was now dying in a life raft. Except he didn't die. As the sea mist flowed over him, he got better. Sort of. This lone survivor doesn't know it yet but he is about to become a great preacher whose words will attract over a thousand followers who will firmly believe that a nuclear missile is actually the sword of God and that a swift blow must be dealt to purify humanity.

 

The wizards apprentice cursed to himself as he approached the site of the Naval battle. He had missed the demon again. He had been so close this time. It had actually been many years since he had really been a mere apprentice but he was cursed never to attain his full rank as full wizard until he recaptured the demon he had set free. The speaker. An evil entity who possessed they dying spirit of mortals and whose seductive and charismatic words were used to attract humans to hopeless causes so that it could feed on their dying spirits. It would then take some vaporous form and find another victim to possess and lead others again to the slaughter and feed again. The wizards apprentice deeply regretted being so weak as to let the demon free from the sealed chest. But the words in his head that told him to do open the box had just so compelling....

 

Next Name for your consideration, "Oxymoron".

[Karma]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

 

Next Name for your consideration, "Oxymoron".

 

Few people know what to make of the heroine who has come to be known as 'Oxymoron' everything about her seems to contradict expectations. She is a plain looking superheroine, an uneducated gageteer, an out of shape martial artist, a selfish hero.

The truth of her tale is that Karen Jones, 40 something high school drop-out is the inheretor of a heric mantle that has been passed on since the time of chilvalry. She was taking a tour of Millenium City when, in her ignorance, she turned down the wrong alley and was set upon by a group of thugs. Suddenly a masked superhero swung down from the roof to defend her. Unfortunately it turned out to be a trap, and while the masked man managed to fight off all his attackers, he did so at the cost of his life. Karen went over to see if she could help her savior, who suddenly looked her in the eyes and said in an ominous voice "The fight for justice must continue". Suddenly Kaen was inundated with the knowledge of many generations of heroes (she is the first female chosen, and was so only out of despiration (the gift is kind of chauvanistic) including knowledge of many martial arts and the creation of superscience gadgetry.

She has taken on the mantle of 'hero' reluctantly (mostly to shut up the voices in her head) and as much as she has tried to get the media to call her 'Madam Smasher' (much to the chagrin of her inner voices) they have dubbed her 'Oxymoron'. She doesn't even know what it means, but she's sure it's an insult. Still, it's a living (since she charges those she saves $100 cash, if they have it, otherwise whatever cash the have). The heroes she carries within her only hide their head in shame and hope that the next person to take up the mantle is a man a little more their style.

 

Next up: D-L337 (pronounced Delete)

[Lumbering Ox]

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I don't know how D-L337 translates into delete but...

 

John Wilson was an odd boy growing up, not quite autistic but not overtly interested in people or the world around him, untill he started to get on the computer. By the time he was 7 he knew his way around pretty much all standard programming languages and had the ability to read through code, even the 1's and 0's while tapping the page down button, and to be able to fully understand everything. In school he barely kept up with his classmates and was taunted without mercy for it. His one gift was kept under wraps for he was odd enough as it was. As time moved on his bitterness and abilities with the computer grew. By the time he was 12 he started taking out his pain on the computer systems world wide. Unlike other hackers he didn't do things for the adulation of the hacker crowd, nor to sell secrets to underworld figures. His sole purpose was destruction. By this time his ability to understand and break into any computer system was unearthly. Never comunicated with other hackers, never sent emails, the only sign he ever left behind was D-L337.

 

Not a high point super, but every point in one area.

 

I am tempted to use Lumbering Ox, but I think it would be obvious where to go on that, so how about.

 

Happy Guy

[Asperion]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

Chase Roberts always could make people laugh. In school Chase was always the class clown. He lost after the fifth grade how many times he was sent to the principle's office. He graduated high school but just barely. After about ten years of go nowhere jobs he finally had had enough. Desperate since he was about to loose everything that he had accumulated, he decided to augment his income with some no-so-legit business deals. At first he hit local convience stores, corner shops, boutiques, etc. He thought that he had all the bases covered with his generic hood, generic gloves, standard outfit, etc. But that was too mundane for him. The saying that kept running through his head was "laugh while the whole world is crying". So he decided to come up with a way of dispercing laughing gas to incompacitate a large number of people. To test his new persona he hit the corner bank. It went off without a hitch. While the people were laughing so hard that it broght them to tears, he robbed the bank and got away with a LARGE sum of money. When the heist was over the detectives found this written on a the back of a deposit slip: "Put on a Happy Face" and included this http://upchucky.com/flash-be-happy.html. The media got a hold of this information and dubbed the robber The Happy Guy Bandit.

 

And Will TimeLine please stand.

[Karma]

D-l337

 

I don't know how D-L337 translates into delete but...

 

L337 is an even more pretentious way of typing 'LEET' (which, if you didn't know, is what those hackers who think theiy are amoung the elite iin their field call themselves)

 

so D (Dee) + L337 (Leet) = Delete

 

See make sense once you think about it.

[st barbara]

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Will Tambling thought that he was just an ordinary guy' until the night that he and his date were menaced by a group of teenaged thugs; half a dozen of them. Suddenly Will wished that he had some help "a few knights in shining armour would be handy about now" he thought. He felt a severe pain in his head and his vision blurred and suddenly the teenaged thugs (and Will and his girlfriend) were surprised to be surrounded by half a dozen men wearing plate armour and metal helmets and carrying a variety of medieval weapons. The thugs ran ! Will and his date looked shocked until one of the knights approached him and told him that HE (Will Tambling) had called the knights forth from the timeline to assist him and only he could send them back. Will did but only after it was explained that he could call forth assistance from the past at any time ! Will has practised with his abilities and now wears a costume and calls himself "Will Timeline". Most people don't know that it is HIM calling these people from the past to help; but Will doesn't care, he LOVES it ! Next :"The Shroud"

[Asperion]

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"So you kids want to hear how it all started?" the old man asked.

 

There were exuberent cries of aproval.

 

"OK, here is how things actually went" he reminisced

 

Flashback: A teen-age kid was idling away his time with his father in the currio shop. The kid really did not want to be there but the father needed to get out in a manner that did not let his mother know what he was doing. Walking along not really minding where he was going or what he was doing, he ran his hand over several items on the shelves - some glass vials, wooden dishware, various figurines, several random pieces of cloth, a marid of books, many different items of unknown function, etc.

 

"Andrew, come along!" called his father. Appearently he had gotten finished with his business and now wanted to leave. That was great for Andrew since he never wanted to be here in the first place.

 

The following monday Andrew went back to school for the week. Nothing really happened except that he found his classes so boring he thought that he would like nothing more than the ability to disappear for a while. In class they were showing a film and another classmate looked at Andrew and his mouth dropped. Appearently the classmate only saw a shadow that blended in with the darkness of the room making Andrew almost invisible.

 

The next day some other students were taunting Andrew and when he wished that they would fall into a deep, dark hole, they actually did! After several more incidents like these, Andrew noticed that each time something like it happened a shroud surrounded him.

 

He kept this a secret and quietly practiced with the shroud abilities. Finally after almost a year of practice, he came out and revealed himself to the world as the Shroud - Master of the Shadow.

 

And now for Osmosis.

[Lumbering Ox]

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That one was easy.

 

Eric Morgan was a bitter phys/chem student who though brillient had little else going for him. One late night while working in the Lab just after being kicked out of the local Dr Who Fan Club there was a massive explosion. The explosion blew the roof off the lab, fortunatly it was on the top floor. However he was not damaged, in fact he felt stronger as he picked himself off the floor. After doing some testing on himself, he found the extra strength and toughness went away. Further testing showed that impact damage would make him a better physcial specimen. He kept quiet on the subject. He stayed at home or at the library for the next month, as with the lab gone there was not much else he could do and it took time to get alternate arrangements set up. His first social outing after that was at a Star Trek fan club meeting which also went bad. During the argueing he notcied that everyone around him was getting weaker, it was as if during his rage at being rejected yet again he was starting to absorb peoples health. He left before he killed anyone but also realised there was no way to keep secret that he had powers. Following through on his roleplaying fantasies, where he always played a Ranger, he decided to become a Hero, working on his own, as he could not control whose health he drained when in battle. And to this day he fights evil as the world most bitter super hero Osmosis.

 

How about hmm

 

Sweaty Betty

[st barbara]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

Betty Barnes was a champion athlete at highschool; running, jumping, hurdling she could do it all better than anyone else ! She even studied martial arts after school, just because she enjoyed the physical exertion. The only problem was that she tended to sweat. This, she discovered, made it REALLY hard for people to grab hold of her, or even seemingly to hit her at all. She joked that maybe sweat was her "mutant power" ! She didn't know how right she was; until "Genocide" detected that she was a mutant and attacked while she was training in the local gynmasium ! They attacked but couldn't hold onto Betty who dodged and twisted and displayed a surprising knowledge of martial Arts as she escaped their trap ! Betty decided that, if she was a low level mutant with a weird power,and "Genocide" were after her anyway, why not use her powers ? She did and still does as 'Sweaty Betty" the worlds slippriest martial artist ! Next : "Fleur De Ly"

[Haven Walkur]

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As a child, Franklin Lyle had often been confined to bed with chronic broncial infections. He hadn't minded much, as it meant he got to do a lot of reading...and dreaming. His favorite books were stories of strong, capable heroes doing all the dashing and dangerous things Franklin was certain he'd never be able to do. He read the adventure tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott and Rudyard Kipling; he devored tales of Robin Hood and King Arthur. But when he discovered the Three Musketeers series by Alexandre Dumas, he fell in love with all things "swashbuckling".

 

Franklin abandoned his former fantasies for elaborate new dreams of joining Athos, Aramis, Porthos and D'artagnan on their adventures. In these dreams, the odd trefoil birthmark Franklin had on the back of his left shoulder marked him for glory and fame as a musketeer.

 

Franklin's dreams stayed with him throughout grammar school and university, leading him learn French and study French history. He also studied the theory and history of fencing, and starved to buy a collection of blades on his student stipend...blades that he wouldn't be able to use because of the bronchitis that still plagued him. Several times opportunities to visit the land of his dreams -- France -- came up through the university, but Franklin was never able to afford to go.

 

Franklin had finished one degree in European History and was a year into his advanced degree in the History of the Code Duello when news of a new study on lung disease began circulating at the university. Hygaea Industries wanted student participants with lung illnesses of various sorts, and they would pay well -- well enough that if Franklin signed up, he'd finally be able to afford to go to France.

 

Of course Franklin signed up. Hygaea was a well-known company, the money was very good and who knows, perhaps they might actually be able to do something about his bronchitis. It didn't seem like much of a risk to Franklin...and besides, Hygaea Industries was high-profile and monitored by the usual government watchdogs. They weren't about to do anything dangerous or illegal.

 

But it wasn't Hygaea Industries.

 

In the aftermath, that was the only conclusion investigators could come to. Exactly who it was that had posed as Hygaea Industries and used the mutagenic chemicals on 250 unknowing student participants -- killing 236 of them -- was never established. Of the 14 survivors, 2 disappeared soon after the incident, 8 were diagnosed with long-term genetic/neurological damage, 3 appeared unaffected -- and 1 went home, packed up his swords and flew to France.

 

Without a plane.

 

The mysterious "treatments" actually did cure Franklin's chronic bronchitis, but they did much more than that. Now, Franklin has discovered that not only can he fly, but he is faster, more graceful and stronger-winded than he ever was before...more than most humans have ever been before. He has applied for and received a student visa, and is working as a teaching assistant (a sous-professeur) at the university of Paris.

 

Able at last to fulfill his swashbuckling dreams, Franklin spends most of his euros and all his spare time training and practicing with his collection of fencing blades; epée, sabre, rapier and assorted others. He's discovered that when he uses the rapier, any particularly good strike with it will cause a kind of "light show" to blossom out around the blade, a kind of trefoil pattern of blue and silver light. It didn't take much imagination see the resemblance to his birthmark, and Franklin has always been very imaginative.

 

In fact, as a child, Franklin was imaginative enough to find a further resemblance, this one between his birthmark and the Fleur de Lis, symbol of the kings of France. But as an adult, he's eschewed claiming that for his "swashbuckling" name, feeling that he doesn't have any right to it. After all, he's not even French, he's English. Instead, Franklin Lyle plans to sieze this opportunity to become a modern-day musketeer, enforcing the peace, protecting the people and acting as the hero he's always wanted to be under the name of 'Fleur de Ly' (for 'Lyle').

 

Franklin remains worried that the mysterious imposters who posed as Hygaea Industries will track him down somehow.

[Haven Walkur]

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Oh, and the next name...Gandydancer, take a bow.

[Lumbering Ox]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

Lance Grandy was a steelworking in Hamilton during the day and active in the dance scene both in Hamilton and Toronto during the evenings and weekends, both teaching and performing, and he was pretty good. One night while leaving a gay bar [Come on everyone knows the steel industry is gay, dont you people watch the Simpsons?] he was abducted with a friend by some gay bashers, roughed up severly and dumped into the extremely poluted harbour in Hamilton. Somehow he managed to live, and got himself ashore where in the morning was discovered and brought to the hospital. After a fairly quick recovery and discharge, he discovered his speed and agility went through the roof. Claiming PTSD from the attack he took a month of work to figure out his new abilities and what he should do with them. He figured he would go public and fight crime in the region, putting in his resignation at Stelco. He is noted for an unusual fighting style in which not knowing any martial arts, combining dance with speed to form almost a new martial art. As he is now public he is known as Gandydancer.

 

WTH, Sweaty Betty a song title worked amazingly well, lets try another song title

 

Rocky Top

[Basil]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

Rocky Top

A number of metahumans have the ability to change form into one or another animal (some more than one). One of the most remarkable is Hubert Mulligan, who can become a dinosaur.

 

Specifically, he can become a pachycephalosaurus.

 

This creature has a skull so thick, and a neck and braincase so well able to take harsh shocks, the Hubert can ram just about anything. And he does, fighting crime and working for justice.

 

At first, he simply went by the name "Pachycephalosaurus." After too many mispronunciations, and too much use by the medias of "Packy" as a nickname, he changed to the somewhat incorrect, but more impressive name, "Rocky Top."

 

 

 

 

Next up, Obscure.

[Whitewings]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

Obscure's power is simple and straightforward: To make herself or other people or objects obscure, unnoticed, insignificant. This purely psionic effect doesn't change her appearance in the least, just causes people to not notice her in particular, write her off as "just another lab tech/stock girl/window shopper/etc." Obviously, there are limits to this ability: she must dress in a fashion suitable to the area, for example. But it's still great boon to casual infiltration and light investigation.

 

Next: Butterfly Baby

[Lilliandra]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

Samantha Right .. was always a very hyperactive child. She loved anything to do with the outdoor and especially athletics. She always loved running and jumping and so on. As She grew her agility and speed never diminished. Her parents never knew what to think. They sent her to every specialist they could think of. No explaination could be given. Finally the gave up on trying to diagnose the problem. When she was 14 they took her to the local gym and she quickly took up boxing. The trainer was amazed at how fast she learned the basics. She flew through the ranks in the local organizations. But in the height of her success she felt very hallow inside. As if there was something more she should be doing. So she saved up some of her fight money and bought a police scanner. She knew with her speed and agility she could catch the thieves, robbers, and murders ect ect before they could get away. Once she caught up to them she would knock them out with the speed and grace of Muhammad Ali. So the media named her Butterfly Baby.. After the saying ," Float like a Butterfly , Sting like a Bee"

 

 

And the Next Name on the List.... INVERSE

[Basil]

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And the Next Name on the List.... INVERSE

The metahuman known only as INVERSE has one of the most peculiar powers known. To put it simply; he can take any object that can be described, in any respect, with numbers, and alter it to make the inverse of that number true.

 

For example: if he's facing a foe that stands 2.5 meters tall, INVERSE alters the foe to be 1/2.5, or 0.4, meters tall.

 

A piece of rope 4 centimeters long becomes 25 meters long, because INVERSE thinks of it as 0.04 meters in length. The inverse is therefore 1/.04, which is 25.

 

Someone who can bench-press 100 kg is rendered so weak they can only bench-press .01 kg (10 g).

 

Note that INVERSE's power only works with regard to numbers: he cannot turn "the world's fastest woman" into "the world's slowest woman" because that description is qualitative, not quantitative.

 

How INVERSE's power works is as unknown as who he is and where he came from.

 

 

 

Next, The Breather.

[Lumbering Ox]

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Willie McRoberts was a dirty little pervert. His favorate activity was to call up various females and breathe heavily on the phone. Although he was carefull enough to use pay phones and moved around enough not to get caught, the gods of Mt Olympus were watching. More as a joke then anything, they gave him powers that worked via breath. He could suck the life out of people by breathing in, and breathe out with such force as to knock people down.

Willie decided to use such powers for good to help others, he might be a dirty little pervert, but it didn't mean he was evil. In the process of thinking about others rather then himself and working for the common good, he didn't have time to follow his previous lifestyle. In time he ended up being able to attract a real female and develop an actual relationship with her, so his life is full, fighting evil, solid relationship, that now he dosen't need nor desire to use his previous talents. His current talents however strike fear in the hearts of evil doers, who recoil from the name.... The Breather!

 

Next one

 

Dog Food Man

 

And I am serious, there was a super hero in a caimpaign, whom we all named dog food boy because of his powers. Just wondering how close the next description will be to the hero in question

[Asperion]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

Samuel Semial has always desired more. Being the CFO for Purina Co. with all its bonuses and perks might seem like enough for most people out there, but not Mr. Semial. True it allowed him to become one of America's richest and most eligible bachelors, but he desired to delete the "one of" portion of the above. To make this work out in his favor and eliminate all competition, he started several tactics that were questionably both ethical and legal. Then one day while he was overseeing some modifications to some dog food that had to be recalled because it was making the dogs that ate it extremely sick there was an unexplained explosion. At first no one thought that he would survive, and no one could be found who even cared. As physics in a supers realm dictate, he did recover and remembered that not a single person cared to even send him any cards or flowers. This made him extremely bitter and angry. He quickly discovered that he has the ability to tap into the mind of any dog within two miles of his present location and use any sense that the dog possesses, he could even telepathically communicate with said dogs. Now as Dog Food Man he gives the heroes trouble that have always troubled him in the past. After all those heroes have only stood in the way of him becoming the richest person in the world and need to be taught a few things.

 

And now to introduce: Tahngarth

[Matt Frisbee]

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Tahngarth? Like the Magic the Gathering CCG card? Sheesh....

 

Thomas and Garth Underwood were human beings once -- human beings with seperate bodies, seperate minds and seperate futures. But that was all before now. That was back when they both knew nothing of the power of dark magic and the madness of those who wield it. That was back when they were just police officers responding to a suspicious person call at the abandoned house near a crumbling graveyard. They arrived seperately, searched seperately, thought seperately, sweated under seperate kevlar vests in the mid-summer heat as they seperately discovered that their quarry was within the old house. They had their last conversation as seperate people about how they would enter the house seperately and approach what they assumed was a vagrant.

 

They entered the house from opposite ends, converging slowly on the room which smelled of fresh blood and incense, into the flickering light of guttering candles and the unearthly non-light of black magic. The magician stumbled in his incantation, and the dark forces he toyed began to consume him. Thomas and Garth reacted as only true policemen could -- they tried to help. They stepped into the magic circle together, acting together, of one purpose. The dying magician cursed them in his pain and fear, and the dark forces heard and gleefully obeyed...

 

Thomas and Garth were merged, fused together in an unholy union of flesh and black magic. The creature that remained was both less and more than human. Two minds joined together, forever forced to share the same thoughts, the same limbs, the same curse. Twice as strong, twice as big, suffused with the unholy power of the black arts -- invulnerable, twisted and evil. A dark spirit found a home in the twisted flesh of two men and now is free to roam the earth, provided it can withstand the assault of alien thoughts of two humans, forever entwined, forever fighting for some measure of peace. No longer Thomas and Garth, but Tahngarth, The Patchwork Man.

 

How about something a little easier now? I choose "Failsafe" Good luck, true believers!

[Crackerjacker]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

This made me think of a vigilante that hunts down supers who he feels have overstepped their bounds and abused their powers.

 

 

The name Failsafe brings to mind a sleek coustume and some sort of symbol, be it a lock or a cage or even a whimsical yellow frowny face surrounded by a red no symbol.

 

 

He'd be a gadgetman. Not an inventor himself but he'd use a whole lot of different gear, specialized to bring in whatever target he was after at the moment. So if he's going against a speedster he'd bring the monowire and landmine traps, against a ice-blaster he'd bring the napalm-gun, against a flying brick a big peircing cannon, and so on so forth.

 

He doesn't try to kill his targets and instead hopes to bring them in for crimes, even when theres no way the police will charge them. This suggests Failsafe isn't exactly sane in the membrane, as he goes to great effort without even making sure results he wants will happen after he hands his target over.

 

For a name how about something that seems to fit in thematically with the codename Failsafe...Henry Locke?

 

For a history lets say he's a former streetlevel, Dark Champions style vigilante that was "born again" and found his purpose in life in bringing in heroes that abuse their powers. He's an escaped mental patient and has lots of criminal contacts which is how he gets his gear, despite avowedly hating crime himself.

 

 

Next up: Human Hand, Sr.

[st barbara]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

Super powers often seem to first manifest under stressful conditions. So it was with Paul le Clerc of New Oleans. Paul was born of an old family that traced its roots back to the days before the Louisiana Purchase. He "became " a super hero when there was a terrible multi car pile up just outside New Orleans; almost in front of where Paul was driving. Paul wanted to help so desperately that "something" happened and a hand of golden energy lept from his own hand to reach out to a trapped motorist and pull him to safety. he was so shocked by what he had done that he got back into his car and drove home where he practised with his powers realising that his "Telekinetic Hand' could stretch out over 100 ft and packed three or four times the punch that he did ! He donned a costume and became "Le Main Humane" ("The Human , or Humane Hand") helping people whenever he could. That was until his wife gave birth to a son and Paul became a full time father. Now his son Pierre has shown that he possesses the same super power as his father, but even stronger ! He calls himself "Le Main Humain Fils" or "Human Hand Jr" and has taken over from his father as one of the defenders of New Orleans ! Next : "The Alchemist"

[st barbara]

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Addendum "Paul still helps out, a bit less than he used to and has changed his name to "Le Main Humane Fils" or "Human Hand Snr".

[st barbara]

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Oh Damn ! Pardon my French won't you ! That's "Le Main Humane PER" or "Human Hand Snr"

[Enforcer84]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

this is slightly cheating I have an Alchemist in my world. Here he is.

You've heard of it haven't you? The Philosopher's Stone? Turns lead into gold? Yeah that's the one. He'd heard of it too. Greg Simmons was a chemical researcher who dabbled in alchemy. Dable is too heavy a word. He had some books, it was something he dug as a kid. Played those RPG's, took some fantasy classes, hung out at used bookstores.

Greg was approached one day by a heavyset man. Older, seemingly wiser. The man told Greg he'd seen the Stone. Told him he was creating one. How had he found Greg? It wasn't important. He wanted Greg to be his assistant. The kid in Greg's heart leapt at the chance. Three years of blood, sweat, and research led to an accident. The old man vanished in a puff of arcane smoke. Greg was luckier (?). Now, Greg Simmons is one with the Alchemical process. He can create anything, either out of thin air or by transforming something else to the desired substance. He cannot create complex machinary but could make the components. He can turn lead into gold, oxygen into fire, light into sound. He has spent most of his life studying chemistry and medicine and he has become an aknowledged expert in the fields of chemical changes. Now Greg, a responsible young man who learned the folly of following "dreams and fantasies", uses his vast powers to aid mankind. Greg became, the Alchemist.

 

 

Here's a name I've liked but can't figure out how to use.

The Journeyman.

[Werehawk]

Re: What's in a Name?

 

" Time is like a house of cards, remove just one and the house falls. Many races over the millennia have tried to alter history to suit their petty agendas. None more so than the race known as Man. The breeches in Time have been maddeningly persistant on this innocuous planet the inhabitants call Earth. From a "Connecticut Yankee" to the so-called Inventor in England to America's "Project Tick Tock" and so on, this child race feels it is their right to attain secrets they must never know. For the balance of Time and Space will be forever destroyed should they succeed. My destiny is to make sure that never happens. For I'm a Time Elemental. And like others before me, I must maintain the flow of time at all costs. My name is Sloan, I am the Journeyman"

 

Next up:The Death Kiwi